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This was my second shot at a Toilet Paper roll Mini Album. I decided to get a bit more elaborate with this one. I had a TON of fun making it!

I used PaperMania's First Noel paper pack and Bazzill cardstock. The focus for this album was to play with Inkagold, poinsettia dies from Tim Holtz, Memory Box and Spellbinders. I really wanted to make this one very interactive, so I made lots of tags, pockets, and folded pieces. There are lots of places for journeling and photos.

For the cover, I made the large poinsettia with the Tim Holtz die. I cut it out of vellum and edged each petal with Inkagold. The smaller flowers are made with the Memory Box mini poinsettia dies, sponged to distress with Inkagold. I used a Martha Stewart border punch in the top right corner, and added the JOY which were made from stickers. I added some Liquid Glass to the top for a little extra fun.

There are so many toilet paper mini albums out there in Pinterest land. I decided that I needed to try my hand at them! The first one I did made with a friendship/tea theme. Each end pocket has a little pull tab that is attached to a packaged teabag.
The front and back covers are triple layer pieces of cardboard glued together from a cereal box, then covered with cardstock. The binding is recreated using Kathy Orta's Hidden Hinge design.

I used Close to My Heart paper - Boomdiada paper pack and Holly Hock white core cardstock. The flower was made with a two inch strip of patterned paper, scored on the Scor Pal and accordian folded.

A chipboard butterfly with a little bling and a vellum sentiment added. The tags for the insert of the rolls were teabags with little pull-tabs.

The tea cups were stamped on the designer paper with Paper Smooches "Cyber Cafe" stamp set.

This flower was fun to make. I received a gift from a friend wrappe in this beautiful tissue paper with flowers all over. I crinkled up the tissue paper and smoothed it back out onto double sided sticky paper. To finish it off, I shaped the petals, layered a few flowers together and stuck a button in the center. Photography is a work in process.., you can't really see the texture detail.

Have you had a chance to play with InkaGold? I recently had the opportunity to try it out. I have to say that I LOVE IT!! Here are a few Christmas cards I designed. The cards are all focused on Docraft PaperMania's First Noel Paperpack and InkaGold. This was created by stamping with InkaGold. The cross charm was rubbed with Inkagold as well to get the antique gold look.The poinsettia was diecutting with Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia die background stamped with Inkagold and a CTMH Christmas sentiment stamp. The tag was punched out and stamped with CTMH Heritage Alphabet stamp using the Gluepad and sprinkled with gold glitter.

Clean and simple cards are a challenge for me. The technique here is one I've wanted to try. Peek-a-boo cards are so fun :)Tools: Spellbinders Heirloom Ornaments die set is used here. Supplies: PaperMania First Noel paper, Stampendous sparkler dot stickers, star form gold Christmas Words peel-offs and Inkagold for highlights on the edges.

Inkagold was used with a sponge applicator on top of the embossed snowflake and swirls image. After it was sponged, it was cut into even strips and mounted atop Bazzille Pomegranate cardstock. Inkagold was used to put a gold edge on the DSP. It was applied using a ruler as a mask to get a crisp border. The gold cord I had on hand was not the right shade of gold, so I applied Inkagold to that as well. Tools: Darice snowflake Swirls embossing folder, Bow Easy - to make the bow.

The technique used here is masking with Inkagold. First, the card base is cut 5 1/2 x 8", then scored at 4 1/4". This leaves the inside edge exposed to the front. I used a scratch paper to mask off 1/2", then sponged the Inkagold to the edge. The ornaments were die cut from the same Spellbinders set. They were run through my big Kick machine two times... Once to cut, and a second time with the rubber mat to emboss as well. I cut an extra ornament in white cardstock to make the mask. I cut around the embossed line, centered this on top of the DSP a ornaments and applied the Inkagold to get a crisp border on each ornament.The poinsettia here is die cut from the Spellbinders Poinsettia, then the edges are distressed with Tim Holtz distress ink: Festive Berries... Stickles in the center.

The technique here was in the candles. Have you wondered what to do with all that plastic packaging your supplies come in? Well, here I used little strips of plastic packaging to creat a floating flame on the candles. The stars are brads. I cut the back off and used a foam dot to adhere it to the plastic strip. I attached the strips to the "candles" with a micro gluedot. Inkagold was used to color the candles.

The poinsettia was cut and embossed using the Memory Box Mini Poinsettia die set. I used a sponge applicator with Inkagold for the edges and embossed detail on the petals. The greenery is from Dee's Distinctive dies: wreath builder.

This album was TONS OF FUN TO MAKE!! Although, I had intended it to be a quick simple project, my mind ran away with me! I started with inspiration from: Kathryn's blog.

The Calendar is using 9x6 envelopes. The ones I found were with the flap on the long part as opposed to the top like I have normally seen. It allows for you to hold cards for each month inside for the special birthdays that month. They are hole-punched at the top of each envelope (2 holes) with metal rings. When it is opened, the pages flip up... so each open page is a two envelope spread.I started by painting the edges with TH peeled paint distress paint. While that was drying I found my papers... a different coordinating bunch for each month.My next step was figuring out how to do the letters for each month. I wanted each one to be a bit different - different look and technique. I ended up cutting out different fonts from my Cricut all in white cardstock so that I could customize each month. Some months I ended up using foam stickers or rub-ons.

For the cover...

the birthday was stamped using a CTMH promotional large alphabet stamp set. I stamped each letter on patterned paper with CTMH Seafoam ink, then fussy cut each letter. After they were cut, I sprayed Goosebumps over the top to give a bit of gloss and texture. I layered them out on twilight cardstock and cut around each one to leave a border. I arranged the letters on another CTMH cardstock scrap and popped it with 3d foam squares. The "calendar" was stamped with "heritage caps" CTMH in Seafoam Green. I cut around the word and layered it on CTMH Twilight cardstock.
The ribbon is a variety of ribbons from my stash. Some were white and I colored them with distress ink. I am super happy with how it came out! I hope you enjoy looking.

January

I punched out 1 1/4" and 3/4" circles for the title. Stamped the letters in Brilliance black pigment ink and went over them with a Sacura gel glitter pen. Some of the letters are popped up on foam dots.

The snowflakes are punched out with a Martha Stewart and a Fiskars punches. I used frosted gold and silver velum and added a bit of bling to the center.

February

The letters were cut in white cardstock from my Cricut - melded in Cricut Craftroom. I sponged them with TH spun sugar and then with worn lipstick on the edges. I stamped using a word background stamp (dollar bin - Michaels) in worn lipstick.

CTMH rik-rak on the sides.
The hearts on the bottom are stickers from my stash. I covered them in glossy accents, and dipped them flat into clear micro beads, then smooshed them flat to make only one layer. - adds dimension and a bit of bling to plain stickers.

March

This was a fun page...
I cut the letters with my Cricut in white cardstock - two layers. The first layer was misted with perfect pearls shimmer mist - Turquoise. The top was misted with Dylussions Pure Sunshine (I just LOVE the bold color of their sprays)
For the embellies: I used Spellbinders Nestabilities, ran it through my Cuttlebug with the spots n dots embossing folder. The circles are cut from a 1 1/4" and 3/4" punch. I used a combination of sponging and water color with TH distress inks (Mustard Seed) and CTMH ink (Dutch Blue).

April

The umbrellas are misted using Tattered Angels Periwinkle glimmer mist. I used a Dreamweaver umbrella metal stencil.The letters are cut from my Cricut - two layers. The first layer was glimmer misted with the same periwinkle spray. The top layer was painted in in a thick layer from the bottle with liquid pearls (buttercup). A dew drop was added to dot the "i". Dew Drops adhered to the page like scattered raindrops - stuck on with glossy accents.

May

The letters again were cut in white cs on my Cricut - two layers. The back layer was sponged in TH distress ink - tea dye. the top was sponged by daubing a sponge in CTMH ink juniper.

The flowers were cut from TH tattered florals die. the larger flower was created with 3 separate patterned papers (from my leftovers bin), each petal was twisted with my needle-nose plyers to give dimension then distressed with TH tea dye ink. They were layered alternating the petals and secured together with a fabric covered brad.

The smaller flower (again from my left-over bin), were from the Tattered Forals die also. Each flower layer was crinkled up and then unfolded, then distressed with Tea Dye ink... adhered with a cloth covered brad. I glued them to the paper with Tombo liquid glue (green and white bottle - LOVE that stuff!!) I used some raffia strands for a little extra behind the flowers.

June

Direct stamping to paper for the birthday sentiments...

The letters were cut from my Cricut in white cs. I first sponged them with TH bundled sage distress ink, then heat embossed them with "you've got flair" stamp and clear embossing powder. The last step was the resist sponging CTMH ink (blue -can't recall the name). the letter tags were adhered with eyelets.

July

The letters are rub-ons. The chipboard arrows were from my stash - not sure of the name. They were glimmer misted in homemade glimmer mist from pearl powder and reinker. The stars were stamped on chipboard, then cut out by hand. I sprayed them with Dylussions Pure Sunshine spray. I drew a star within each star with liquid glue and sprinkled iridescent microfine glitter over the top... not sure that you can really see the bling. The edges were sponged with TH walnut distress ink.

August

The letters are single layer cut in white cardstock on my ricut. I applied the pearl lime ink direct to paper.

The balloons are simply circles that I punched from my scrap stash... buttons on the bottom with embroidery floss for the string. The strings are gathered together with a glue dot towards the bottom.

The cupcakes are foam stickers from my stash.

September

The letters are foam stickers that are sponged with TH distress inks.
The sunflowers were cut in white cardstock on my Cricut. The top was sprayed with Dylussions - Pure Sunshine, the bottom sprayed with Dylussions Cut Grass.
I used a 3d glue dot for the center of the sunflowers and covered it in nut brown flower soft.

October

The letters were cut out of sunflower cs. I put them through my Cuttlebug with the Happy Birthday embossing folder from Cuttlebug. Then I distress lightly with TH walnut distress ink.
The leaves are some stickers from my stash.

November

The letters are foam stickers... they started as pink. I sponged them to the right color with TH distress inks. The leaves were rocked onto the ink pads to vary the color, then misted using a TH mini mister of water - then, stamped direct to the paper.

December

The letters were cut on my Cricut, then put through my Xryon to make them sticky. I covered and burnished each one with red glitter.

I had found some foil tape at the Dollar Tree and applied to to some cardstock to give it some strength. It was too flimsy to use on its own for this technique. I cut the foiled cardstock into strips and randomly cut triangles from that. I applied tacky glue to the back of each piece and randomly laid the pieces on a base on Recollections Bronze cardstock. It was a pretty cool technique, but awefuly fussy...lol

The next step was the flowers. I used the Spellbinders Pointsetta dies to create the petals from Bazzille cardstock (Cranberry and a textured silver). I shaped the flowers with my stylus sponged the edges with Distress ink and glued the layers together with a mini popdot. I finished them by adding silver Liquid Pearls to the centers.

The cute snowman stamp was stamped and heat embossed. I colored the scroll background with a red Distress marker and then again with a glitter pen. The green holly on his hat was colored with a Gellyroll green Glaze pen. The scarf was filled in with purple stickles.

Once all the pieces were created, I assembled the tag on a red Bazzille cardstock base. I added some white feathers around the flowers at the bottom. The punched and sponged month tag was stapled to the top with some sheer red ribbon.

For the November tag, I tried to keep it more towards a CAS design. That is usually quite a challenge for me.

The snowman was stamped and heat embossed. I colored over the embossing with distress markers. Used a Fiskars punch for the snowflake on his hat.

The snowflakes were punched with a Martha Stewart punch on the top layer so that you see the white beneath. Rhinestone gem for the centers. After I got this assembled, I realized that I should have popped up the top layer to give it some depth.

Let it snow was stenciled on with a brass stencil and Dreamweaver pearl embossing paste.

The bow was made with the Bow Easy. The months tag attached with a mini clothespin.

October - Harvest MoonThis was fun. I had never used Coordinations Core paper before. I embossed it with a Darice EF, then sanded it so that the purple core showed the embossed design through the black.

The snowman was heat embossed and fussy cut.. Colored with distress and glitter markers.

The moon and stars were diecut from a Tim Holtz die. The harvest moon was sprayed with Dyllusions Pure Sunshine spray and edged with Stickles. The stars were painted with Tombo liquid glue and glittered with neon "Spark Cricket" fiber glitter.

The month tag was punched and sponged with distress ink and paper clipped on the bottom.

The September tag is my "inky mixed media" tag. This was my first time making a multi-layered background with different types of inks and stamping

The tag started white. I started by coloring with Gelatos. I rubbed two shades of green and two shades of blue Gelatos on my craftmat. I sprayed it with water, and swirled my tag around in it. I did this a couple of times drying in between to get the right effect. I added some writing with a Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous stamp. I colored the stamp with my Blueberry Gelato. I sprayed the inked stamp with my Mini Mister, then stamped several times without reinking the stamp. Next I stamped in archival black ink the birds, branches (from the same the Tim Holtz set and Inkadinkado Birds). CTMH Intrinsic Backgrounds was stamped on the bottom corner with Archival ink as well. Lastly, I used a stencil and sprayed with a peach coloured glimmer spray for a litte highlight. I sponged on a bit of yellow distress ink in the end to add a little extra depth.

The snowman (Tim Holtz) was stamped with Versamark and black detail embossing powder, then heat embossed and fussy-cut. I colored it with copics for a bit of shading. For the hat and scarf, I colored with distress inks and my water brush. After they dried, I added some blue Distress glitter. I finished the snowman off by adding a bit of irridescent glitter on the shadow marks.

For finishing touches, I stapled green ribbon and an orange bow on the top. The month tag was punched and sponged... Attached with a green spiral clip.

For the snowman: I cut cardstock freehand, shaped it with a stylus to make it a little rounded and covered with real sand from Bahammas (Sand was compliments of Dea). I used Elmer's glue that was a little watered down so it would paint on easily. I pressed it into the sand and let it dry. I repeated this step adding a second layer of glue and sand. Once it was dry, I glued sequins for a bikini (thanks Trina!). The arms were punched for Martha Stewart's branch punch. I had to trim off a few of the twigs. I found the perfect "beach towel" patterned ribbon in my stash and secured it on the arm with a glue dot. The hat is a CTMH cupcake stamp trimmed and turned upside down. The sunglasses are brads from Eyelet Outlet. I cut the nose freehand and added some black lines to make it look like a carrot. The mouth was made from mini glass beads on a headpin. It was attached by poking it through the head and bending it in half. Secured by a gluedot on the back. What a great snowman smile! Finally the grass skirt was made with neon Recollections cardstock using Martha Stewart Fringe scissors. Two layers of fringe were wrapped around the snowman's belly and secured with glue dots as well.

The background started with Recollections turquoise blue cardstock and layered with a lighter blue on top. I swirled it with white pearl paint to look like clouds, then sponged with a few shades of blue Distress inks. The beach is textured cardstock, torn and distressed with Walnut Stain Distress ink.

The palm tree was digital stamped and fussy-cut. I painted the leaves with distress paint and Dyllusions Cut Grass spray. The trunk was sponged with Walnut Stain ink. The flower (sun) is hand made starting with a clear bling button (I coloured yellow on the back with a Copic marker). The petals were cut with those fringe scissors. I lined the paper edge with scor-tape and wrapped it around several times, then flattened it out to look like a flower. See the tutorial for this flower here.

My darling Hubby got a kick out of this tag. His input was that it neede a sunscreen bottle with 1000 SPF on it. What a cute idea! Thanks Dea for your help with the bottle creation!

My sister-in-law Ashley just got a new Bigz Die for a canning jar. That is what started the inspiration for this tag. In my search for summer snowman ideas, I saw bottles of water - "melted snowman", I saw puddles of water representing what WAS a snowman, and then I came across a glass of water in a beach setting with snowman parts ice cubes. This was probably my favorite summer snowman idea Pinterest. I had cut the jars out way ahead of time as my SIL lives 5 hours away.

I cut the jars from vellum thinking that it would be see-through enough for what ever idea I came up with. I die cut two layers. When I figured out the logistics of my plan, I ended up cutting the center out of the top layer of vellum so you could see inside the jar better. For the inside, I filled a plastic baggie with hair gel and coloured it with Distress Lemonade reinker. I put dew drops for the eyes, a free-hand cut foam nose, sequins for the mouth and a felt hat.... Melted snowman - for lemonade. I sandwiched the plastic Baggie of "Snowman Lemonade" with score-tape around the edges. I diecut the lemon slice layers on my Cricut for the top of the jar.

I layered white cardstock with CTMH Hollyhock cardstock and lemonade patterned DSP. The awning was made with 3/4" strips in alternating shades of yellow. I used my corner rounder to make the points on each strip, then mounted them on hollyhock cardstock and scored them on my ScorPal.

The lemonade sign was made on black cardstock to look like a chalkboard. The "frosty" was stamped with glue and sprinkled with glitter. The "lemonade" was stamped with white pigment ink.

I thought butterflies would be great for June, but I had no clue how I was going to pull it together with the snowman focal point. After searching and searching for inspiration online, I got it from my dear friend Dea. Make the Snowman a Butterfly! Woo hoo!!! How fun is that??

There are two techniques for the background: Emboss Resist and Sponging on Glossy paper. First, I stamped on Ranger glossy cardstock with CTMH Playful Flourishes stamp set in Versamark Ink. I applied clear Embossing powder and heat set it. Next I fussy cut around the flourishes and sponged with Distress inks: Dusty Concord, Seedless Preserves and Milled Lavender. The white color of the cardstock showed through the clear embossing powder. I love this effect! Silver rhinestones were used to accent the scrolls against the deep purple base.

For the snowman:The snowman wings were digital stamped and colored with distress markers and glitter pens. The snowman shape was made in cricut craftroom by welding a cirlcle and stretched oval together, then cut on the cricut. The earmuffs are from CTMH All Decked Out set: fussy cut and fun flock added. purple rhinestones added for the buttons. (I love bling and sparkle) Ribbon from my stash.The month was attached with a purple bling from Recollections. The ribbon is crinkled paper ribbon. The top butterfly is laser cut wood with added black rhinestones.The bottom border was cut with a Martha Stewart punch. I applied with tombo glue and sprinkled MS glitter on top.It is so hard to decide which tag is my favorite, but this is one of the top-runners for sure. Butterflies, purple, lots of bling!

April showers bring May flowers! When I saw this adorable rosette snowman on Chelsea's blog

I knew I had come up with the start of a plan!

I started with the rosettes. I made them 2" and 3" in diameter. To make the hat, I cut a square and rectangle from black cardstock and trimmed them with my EK Success corner rounder punch. The nose was cut freehand and crinkled in my Fiskars Crimper. Sequins for eyes. Plastic ribbon for the hat trim and scarf. I added some felt flowers for the buttons with gems in the centers.

The background was stamped with Hero Arts Flower Burst background stamp. I went over some of the lines with a Gelly Roll stardust marker. I stamped some flowers on the bottom corner with CTMH Treasured Life stamp set in Momento black ink, then dotted some Tombo liquid glue on the flowers and patted on some flower soft.

The fence was created by cutting strips of paper and gluing them together - popped up on foam dots. I cut the little flowers with a Fiskars punch on DSP, shaped and glued in some mico beads for the centers.

The "sun" was created by spraying a doillie with Dillusions spray. My tag was finished off with CTMH Fibers and sheer ribbon. I tied a punched and sponged month tag to the fibers at the top.

My inspiration came from the phrase April Showers. I thought a snowman with an umbrella would be so cute! I had seen buttons used as raindrops on a Pinterest post. (Gotta love Pinterest!). I wanted a bit of bling, so I thought I'd swap the buttons for sequins. Technique: I had wanted to try embossing resist technique... So we get started ;)

I started with a base of white cardstock that I sprayed with Heidi Swap shimmer spray. The background is watercolor paper that I first dry embossed, inking the folder with versamark clear ink. I applied clear EP and heat set it. I sprayed a combination of Heidi swap shimmer mists, and Dyllusions spray on my craftmat and pressed the embossed paper into the ink puddle. After it was dry, I used a coffee filter to wipe the extra color from the embossed design. The heat embossed areas resisted the color highlighting the chevron pattern.

The boots were stamped, cut and then colored with distress markers and Gelly Roll Glaze markers. I applied several layers of UTEE. Once the UTEE was melted and cooled, it curled up. That was quite disheartening. I heated them back up a little, just enough to be pliable - not melted. I put them on my craft mat and placed a heavy object on it so it would cool flat. That seemed to do the trick!

Diecut on my Cricut: The clouds were cut from textured cardstock a and sponged with Weathered Wood Distress ink. One cloud was attached with glue dots, and the other was popped up with a foam pop dot. The umbrella was cut on Bazzille patterned CS. I used a distress marker to highlight the wire ribs. The duckies were cut in yellow CS. I sponged the bottom layer with Orange Marmalade Distress ink and glued them together with a googely eye to finish them off.The snowman was cut on textured white CS on the Cricut. I used black bitty brads for the eyes and stickles for the nose, metal dot stickers for the buttons and yarn fibers from my stash for the scarf.

Inspiration for this tag is St Patty's day.
For this tag, I searched for quite some time for the perfect technique to highlight. I had seen lots of chalk on black and I really liked that look. I played around with that, but wasn't getting the effect that I had in mind. I finally ended up with this:
I created a stencil on my Cricut Craftroom, and used that to create the background on black CS. I used a Ranger embossing dauber to ink up the cardstock with the stencil in place and painted on grean pearlex powder. This ended up nice and pearly and a bit distressed using the dauber to apply the embossing fluid.
The snowman was created with a CTMH stamp set and masking, then fussycut. Sequins were applied for the buttons and on the hat. Prismacolored pencil for the nose.
The flowers were created by hearts cut out in 3 sizes on my cricut. Each flower consists of eight hearts layerd, glued together, then shaped and assembled. Rhinestones added to the middle of each flower.The vine is cut from green shimmer sheetz with the Maryanne Swirl leaf die.
I created the "ribbon" from strips of coffee filters that I had used for cleanup when I had done misting and inking on my craft mat for another project.

For February, I borrowed a cute bear snowman stamp from a friend. I couldn't resist...Such a cute stamp!

I started with a base of cream cardstock and layered Bazzille cardstock over top. I had some DSP from an old CTMH paper pack- Adored. I ran that through my big shot with a Darice Hearts embossing folder. I sanded the top lightly for a country look.

The bear was stamped and colored with Distress markers. I added some brown flower soft for texture. Liquid Applique was used for the poofy had ball. I cut mini hearts with a punch and lined them on twine for a heart banner.

I punched and layered some hearts with the multi heart punch by EK.Ribbon and bling added in the end.

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